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There was a tangled argument. "Well, he ," said the two, indicating their opponent with accusative forefingers. The huge soldier was quite purple with rage. He pointed at the two soldiers with his great hand, extended clawlike. "Well, they " But during this argumentative time the desire to deal blows seemed to pass, although they said much to each other.
In the seventeenth century the writer of the history of the Dominican Order in Portugal, Frei Luis de Souza, boldly said they were Greek, and in this opinion he was supported by 'persons of great judgment, for "Tanyas" is the accusative of a Greek word "Tanya," which is the same as region, and "erey" is the imperative of the verb "ereo", which signifies to seek, inquire, investigate, so that the meaning is, addressed to Dom Manoel, seek for new regions, new climes. Of course whatever the meaning may be it is not Greek, indeed at that time in Portugal there was hardly any one who could speak Greek, and Senhora de Vasconcellos than whom no one has done more for the collecting of inscriptions in Portugal has come to the very probable conclusion that the words are Portuguese.
Half a dozen people were in the room, manfully defying the turmoil that had sent nearly every one else to bed in terror and distress. Without hesitation the dancer joined the couple in the corner. Her smile was engaging; a faint line between her eyebrows signified the concern she felt for him. Miss Clinton looked up from her work. Her smile was politely accusative, and brief.
The whole of this passage to suasissem is an exhibition of antiquarian learning quite unnatural and inappropriate in a dialogue. PROBE MEMINISSE POTESTIS: cf. De Or. 3, 194 quem tu probe meministi; Fin. 2, 63 L. Thorius quem meminisse tu non potes. Memini can take a personal accusative only when the person who remembers was a contemporary of the person remembered; otherwise the gen. follows. Cf.
It seems to me that not knowing what else to say that animals communicated if it was not ideas, and not knowing what mess he might not get into if he admitted that they had ideas at all, he thought it safer to omit his accusative case altogether.
"To slash is, speaking grammatically, to employ the accusative, or accusing case; you must cut up your book right and left, top and bottom, root and branch. To plaster a book is to employ the dative, or giving case; and you must bestow on the work all the superlatives in the language, you must lay on your praise thick and thin, and not leave a crevice untrowelled.
In the interest of science, I will cipher it out on the hypothesis that it is masculine. However, this rain is not resting, but is doing something ACTIVELY, it is falling to interfere with the bird, likely and this indicates MOVEMENT, which has the effect of sliding it into the Accusative case and changing DEM Regen into DEN Regen."
The duty of Sheriff here in Calcutta, to look out and catch those carriages which is rashly driven out by the coachman; but it is a high post in England. Sheriff was the English bill of common prayer. The man with whom the accusative persons are placed is called Sheriff.
'Silly Dora, silly Dora! said Ursula. Birkin felt some mistrust and antagonism in the small child. He could not understand it. 'Come then, said Ursula. 'Let us go before mother comes. 'Who'll hear us say our prayers? asked Billy anxiously. 'Whom you like. 'Won't you? 'Yes, I will. 'Ursula? 'Well Billy? 'Is it WHOM you like? 'That's it. 'Well what is WHOM? 'It's the accusative of who.
O MISERUM: 'O, wretched is that old man'. Cicero oftener joins O with the accusative than with the nominative: he rarely, if ever, uses the interjection with the vocative in direct address to persons. Lucretius, De Rerum Nat. 3, 417 et seq.; cf. also Caesar's argument at the trial of the Catilinian conspirators, Sall. Bell. DEDUCIT: cf. n. on 63. ATQUI: see n. on 6.
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